connatural

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I answer that, The species whereby the angels understand are not drawn from things, but are connatural to them.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Another principle is man's habitual inclination to do good, by reason of which doing good becomes connatural to him: for which reason the liberal man takes pleasure in giving to others.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The separated soul, though it is an existing individual substance, retains its essential communicability to its connatural material principle, the body.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

They may be such that in the ordinary course of nature, and so far as its forces and laws are concerned, they are never found to be absent from their connatural substances—inseparable accidents.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

The idea of God is connatural to the human mind.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)